Global 5000 Database Update – April 2018
We finished the month of April with 390 records updated. Included in our activity were 21 companies added and deleted. For those of you producing a list for your sales teams, you need to keep watching those updates and market activity to keep the list current. Our database remains at 99% currency – all 5,000 […]
Global 5000 Database – list of countries
For those who like lists of companies and locations for lead generation, we ran the most recent count (31 March 2018) of companies in each country. No big surprises as USA is the largest followed by China, Japan, UK and Germany. Argentina 7 Australia 82 Austria 18 Bahamas 2 Bahrain 2 Belarus 1 Belgium 28 […]
Global 5000 Database Update – March 2018
With the month of March in the books, we updated 718 records during the month including adding 33 new companies (and deleting a corresponding 33 others). At this point, the database currency is 99% – all 5,000 records have had an update within the past 12 months. We continue to see a robust level of […]
Global 5000 Database Update – February 2018
As the beginnings of financial results for 2017 have started to be posted, we have completed updating the database for February. At this point, the database currency is 100% – all 5,000 records have had an update within the past 12 months. Just like what we saw in the previous month, February also had its […]
Global 5000 Database Update – January 2018
January is typically the slowest month of the year for updating record in our company database. Year end results for companies with a December fiscal year are not yet ready and those reporting with September year end have already been updated. For those looking for a company list for lead generation, the bigger action in […]
The Global 5000 by Industry
Each company in the database is assigned to an industry segment based on here they derive the majority of their revenue from. Those segments are then rolled up to industry segments. The table below shows the number of companies in each industry alongside the largest provider in each. Financial Services 877 Berkshire Hathaway Industrials (non […]
Global 5000 Database update – Year End 2017
The Global 5000 database continues to provide B2B marketers a timely, continually updated source of business information for business lead generation and ABM activity. As we closed out the year for 2017, we added 30 new companies to the Global 5000 database during Q4. This brings our total new adds for the year to 216. […]
Global 5000 Database Update – November 2017
During the month of November, 513 records were updated bringing the total updates YTD to 5,806. Included in these updates were the addition of 14 new companies to the database in November and 223 for 2017. We also removed 12 companies this month by putting them into inactive status. Every month we complete a series […]
Is this fake B2B news or AI generated content run amok?
As part of our normal research process of examining M&A transactions for Global 5000 companies, we came across a number of postings & articles that look like fake news. They look like automatically generated content and the info in them is wrong and bad. Junk that is wasting space and adding to the noise online. […]
Reconciling Data – Robo Advisors & the SEC
Anyone who has worked with databases knows that matching up multiple datasets knows that the nitty, gritty behind-the-scenes detail work is not exactly the most glamorous work —- but it is necessary. That realization was once again driven home when we downloaded the SEC list of registered advisors. The goal was to match that list […]